My Octopus Teacher (documentary film review)
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
My Octopus Teacher is both a gorgeous wildlife documentary and a moving tale of how a man in crisis found joy and purpose through immersion in nature and a remarkable relationship with an octopus.
Review: The Economic Superorganism by Carey W. King
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
In this aptly titled book, University of Texas research scientist Carey W. King argues that the modern-day global economy is a superorganism.
Movie review: Annihilation
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Loosely based on an eponymous 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation centers around a journey to the heart of an anomalous region known as Area X on America’s southern coast.
Review of New Maps, the latest deindustrial fiction quarterly
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
As its name alludes, this visionary new fiction quarterly seeks to challenge our current mental maps of the future.
Review: Capitalism and Environmental Collapse by Luiz Marques
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Capitalism and Environmental Collapse is an exhaustive summary of today’s plethora of existential ecological threats, followed by an equally comprehensive discussion of what author Luiz Marques deems to be the core fallacies at their root.
80° North
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
80° North is part sailing adventure, part beautifully photographed travelogue and part eyewitness account of the environmental threats faced by the Arctic.
Graphic Novel Review: 10 Billion is a sci-fi tale of astonishing scope and visual imagination
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
10 Billion vividly reimagines Greer’s blog post as a graphic novel. Told and illustrated in an immersive comic book style, it gives potent visual form to the original text.
Movie review: The Last Winter
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The Last Winter is an eco-supernatural horror film about oil workers in the Arctic who are stalked by a vengeful spirit determined to keep them from exploiting the oil. Despite this promising premise, the movie has big problems...